Hi guys,

There are new versions of rviz in Groovy (1.9.36), Hydro (1.10.15), and Indigo (1.11.1), but we need some help with testing.

rviz is complex, so even though we have been careful to only release fixes in the new versions which should not break things, it is hard to be sure until we get it out there and people use it. Therefore, before we make these versions of rviz the default in the public debian repositories, I would like to give the community an opportunity test these new versions.

You can help us out by testing these new versions of rviz and you can do so by building the latest versions of rviz from source:

$ mkdir ~/rviz_ws

$ cd ~/rviz_ws

$ rosinstall_generator rviz --rosdistro hydro --tar > rviz.rosinstall

$ source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash

$ catkin_make install

$ source ./install/setup.bash

$ rosrun rviz rviz

Obviously, if you are using groovy or indigo, please replace the use of hydro with the appropriate alternative.

We will wait a short period of time before making these versions public, so please test this is as soon as you can and report any issues you encountered on the rviz issue tracker:

https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/issues

If you are interested in the changes which each version of rviz, please see the changelog's for each:

http://docs.ros.org/groovy/changelogs/rviz/changelog.html

http://docs.ros.org/hydro/changelogs/rviz/changelog.html

http://docs.ros.org/indigo/changelogs/rviz/changelog.html

Thanks!

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William Woodall

ROS Development Team

william@osrfoundation.org

http://wjwwood.io/